<p>you want f’(x) = 0, or undefined
no horizontal tangents, f’(x) != 0
verticle tangent: x = -3, cusp: x = 0 are undefined for f’(x)
concavity changes at x = -3 (down quarter-circle to up) but not at x=0 (both sides are down).</p>
<p>Concavity has to change for inflection (unlike critical points), this only occurs at x = -3</p>
<p>A parabola can go from increasing to decreasing and would still always be concave down (it would have the max at the vertex though, what your teacher described is how we define max/min)</p>
<p>Then again, lines don’t have concavity, so . . . maybe it is inflection. However, the graph looks concave down. Hmmm, I now doubt my answer :/</p>
<p>4b was 1.5 because g(x) = integral of f(x) + 2. since f(x) stops being positive at x = 1.5, it stops increasing there. g(x) has a maximum at that point.</p>
<p>The inflection point was at X=0, everyone. In this case, you want where g’(x) changes from increasing to decreasing. -3 doesn’t work because although it may be a point of inflection for f(x), that’s not what the question asked: it asked for where g(x) had a point of inflection.</p>
<p>For the region R problem, #3, it says to find the perimeter and volume in terms of k. Does that mean we should be using k’s in the expressions or x’s? </p>
<p>I used k’s without thinking and a classmate was saying that he used x. I thought he was right, but when I went back just now, it says to do it in terms of k. What did you guys do?</p>
<p>Preliminary answer guide, feel free to contribute.</p>
<p>3a)1+k+e^2k+Int(sqt(1+4e^4x)dx,0,k)
3b) I’ll have to rework this one
3c) Same here</p>
<p>4a)
4b)
4c) X=0
4d) -2/7; function must differentiable throughout the interval for the mean value theorem to apply, but f is not differentiable at 0</p>
<p>4b) absolute maximum = 2.5, lots of people thought it was 1.5 but you can easily confirm on the calculator that its 2.5 (work is shown on the page before this one and explanation on this page)</p>
<p>^ I got all the same answers for number 6 (except I left some of my series with factorials - shouldn’t matter though) So those are confirmed.</p>
<p>3a)1+k+e^2k+Int(sqt(1+4e^4x)dx,0,k)
3b) I’ll have to rework this one
3c) Same here</p>
<p>4a) -33pi/4??I’m not positive (idk if this is what I put on the test), g’(x) = 2+f(x), g’(-3) = 2+0 = 2
4b) I recall it was x=2.5 - the justification was a nightmare (I didn’t know how to explain every point I tested and the line formula and calculations took up a ridiculous amount of space)
4c) X=0; g’(x) is undefined here and f changes concavity. We can’t tell anything at x=-4 because the interval ends there, it could be a horizontal line for all we know - no change in concavity.
4d) -2/7; function must differentiable throughout the interval for the mean value theorem to apply, but f is not differentiable at 0</p>